Telegram-herald., 1887-08-22

vel kD0wa keaAemsa yesterday apd
man. Who by TIE ~sy has been eonnecfsa
with railroads. Eaors OF lSss foT ths past
thirty years Toe ides If puSging Al ths
blame on that poor t~siss-shiliipg s-cay
section forsmza snd not even ceBsuEing sbe
railroad fof runniBg q 'double header sie.
II reminds me Of the little boy. y ho
snEered at playmate larger than himself
--bosssingly said. Well il cant liok Jon.
! can make mouths Al your sister
Ansns the Cable Road. the press Of tie
city have from Fime 10 time printed inter
views and quoted remarks which smsnsted
from representatives Of the Fuller estate.
Their great hue and cry has been 70 ssFe
CANA. 81. from going to wreck aud ruin,
and on these grounds they sueBaousiy Op-
posed granting a franchise 10 the Cable
Road except il went up Bndge-st. II j.
one thing 20 practice ands another thing 10
preach. all Of which forcibly reminds one
that the Fuller estate owns the wooden eye
sore at the corner OF Canal and BFidge-sis.,
perfect hre-trap. and detrimental
TO the growth and improvement
of surrounding property. The same
estate is building three-story brick block
on South Division-st.. and is interested in
the elegant block being erected stthe corner
Of South Division and East Fulton-sts.
Perhaps that is a new way Of building up
Csnal-st.. TO leave frame shsnties there and
erect handsome brick buildings elsewhere.
Sometimes people get into trouble for
borrowing things without the necessary
"by your leave. SIR" An accident befell a
young man about town the other day that
will be the means of making him look q
"leedls out" A friend was the poss-
essor Of gun which he used
for target practice. A bevy of
good healthy masculine cats having as
sembled for several nights in his back
yard for convention purposes. he loaded the
gun with slugs for the purpose of annihilat-
ing the felines on the occasion of their next
visit. Now Frank walling. the aforesaid
young man with borrowing procl ivities,
called at his friends house the other day.
and picking up the gun started to make
iway with it in order to test his skill as a
rnerksmah. Raising il TO his shoulder and
looking IN mirror which was In the room,
he pulled the trigger. 1t was a case of
didn't know it was loaded. bat the mirror
told the tale. 1t was shattered into
Thousand pieces. 1t is needless to say that
/ |fWalling has foresvorn target practice
"It does seem strange that the Board
of Public Works finally got their eyes open
to the fact that the plan to tap the river at
the pumping works was feasible. and the
only method by which q suitable supply Of
water could be obtained" remarked gen.
tleman cohspicp ous at the citizens water
meeting in July. THE Board was called
upon then to tap the river but they refused
on the ground that they were wiser than
most men. After depriving the citizens of
sufficient supply of water all Summer and
expending several hundred dollars in
securing the opinions'of experts, the men,
bers of the Board are now compelled 10 ac-
knowledge that they were in error. 1t was
q case of big head on their part and simply
showed the Board in its true light before
the public"
Some complaints are being made about
the free delivery system. and If fstaments are
true the matter should be looked into by
Postmaster Blair. A we'll known profess
sional gentleman tells the following har-
rowing tale: "a letter addressed to my
Office, which, by the way. is on the second
floor of a Canal-st, block. was received at
the postoffice the other afternoon. When
livery that letter was in his pouch,
but was not delivered at my
Office until the next morning. BY its fail
ure to arrive / was deprived of good case
and client was disappointed. The only
satisfaction received was that rule Of the
department did not make II obligatory on
the mail-carriers to go above the ground
| floor to deliver letters on the last delivery.
Certainly professional men are entitled 70
as much consideration from the postofioe
/ department. As meIC0aDlt.
Those who attended the theatre last week
could not have failed to notice the'excellent
dancing o1ittle. Lena Fountsinhlean. One
cannot help calling her little, e,although she is
very tall, for in years she is young. Time
| flies by so rapidly that it 1t seems but the
| other day that Lena and her sister were
residents of Grand Rapids. That was when
both of the girls were much smaller than
| they are now. and when their mother was
known and recognized az hat spinner and
circus performer Of more than ordinary
ability. For over year they resided in a
pretty little brown cottage on Cherrv-st 81.
directly opposite Mr. emiley's elegant man
sion. but the neighbors in that vicinity have
probably forgotten By this tine Baby
Lena, ss she was called then. or failed 70
recognize her as the stately Miss Lens
| Fountainbleau, Of the Tin Soldier Com
psnT.
"A telegraph from Lansing printed in the
Tt1EsRAx-H EEALp, Saturday morning. an
nouncing that JOAN Hickey would be
| brought back from Maine to answer 10 the
charge of havisR murdered Thomas J. Brit
ton IN Detroit IN 1884. reminds ne q the
| tinse that Britfon cane - this citr some
/ years sfc ssld a msn about town vssfer-
| dsT. 'krton rss sboHt ss sick - thev
/ make en- and ss confidence operator vas
/ looked no = ~ bis sssociafes- Hs cane
| here with bsif fuii - foyueys' shide
rinxs-&nd VS. arrested while irving % dis
| Tose ~ one in the Roysi Palm. Poor ed